How would this work then?
Now: all 4 IDE drives on primary/secondary ( master slave)
Alternate: add a PCI ide card. Split things up with two drives going
the the IDE card ( master master )
So 4 masters essentially. Would an IDE card give two seperate BUS channels?
Is the alternate idea worth it?
Mark
Quoting Mike Frisch <mfrisch at isurfer.ca>:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:56:56PM -0400, list at onnow.net wrote:
>> Why each on its own bus? I am wondering if there is an issue with two
>> on a bus? I have two IDE ports and master/slave on each one. It
>> works, but is there something I am missing?
>> Performance :)
>> It'll work, but your performance will be lousy compared to having each
> drive on it's own IDE controller.
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